We went off to the hills and spent a night in a a trekkers hut at 10,000 feet at Tonglu. In fact we were the only people there and fortunately did not take the bed suggested which had rain dripping on it during the night. We walked down the next day in the sunshine taking about 4 hours.
Driving through the Himalayas.
This was where the road was along a dried up river bed
Here at last.
Visited the town but couldn't get any money out.
Had lunch with some YWAM workers and began to plan a visit next weekend to a project in Takna, where Caroline and I are to run a Sunday school event - based around the call of Peter. Please pray for us in this.
Sunday - went to church withBen and Heather at Bethlehem fellowship. Men and women sit on different sides of the church on the floor. I was invited to sit on a bench at the front with Ben and Caroline and Heather sat on a bench at the back..
I gave a greeting from the churches in the Modbury team and asked them to pray for us which they did. I ws asked to do the blessing at the end of the service and to pray for a woman with a skin complaint.
There is a possibility that I might be able to visit Bhutan - wait and see.
Meanwhile we are expecting to meet with Bishesh this morning (Monday) and visit the school and his area for a few days this week. So I will probably not be able to blog.
Visited a YWAM project where they make contact with street children and visit in a slum.
Went to the YWAM centre in KTM valley where a number of courses are run.
They have an interesting way of extracting rice from the sheaves. They just lay them on the road and let the cars drive over them.
In the eveing we had a meal with the regional director of YWAM in Nepal and stayed the night with Joel a film actor who had an amazing story to tell.....
Next day we set off for Kalimpong at 4.15am in the dark, after 700km we arrived at 10.15 at night in the dark. And what a journey that was.
Up through the hills of Kathmandu and as the light began to dawn the road became more and more rough until we were travelling along a river bed.
At 11am we came to a stop. A boy had been killed in an accident and the road was closed - they talked about a period of 3 days! The relatives close the road in order to force some financial recompese. So after waiting an hour we took a side road, which became a path, then fell down to a dried up river bed and finally we made our way round. At midday in 39 degrees centigrade we caught our first glimpse of the snow topped himalayan mountains.
Another delay was caused by a "bund" a political strike which closes the road, so once again we took a scenic diversion.
